 I'm Grace Oroz and I'm the Integrative Health Nurse for Hackensack Meridian Integrative Health and Medicine. Aromatherapy is the therapeutic use of essential oils that are extracted from plants or plant matter. They have a therapeutic value based on the chemical makeup of each oil that's extracted from the plant. It can be from the stem, it could be from the leaf, it could be from the flower. Each part of the plant can give you a different therapeutic value. Aromatherapy can help manage symptoms, particularly pain, anxiety, depression, insomnia, digestive issues. Anyone can benefit from an aromatherapy consultation. It's important that you have a good assessment of what your medical history is and what medications you take and any disease process that you might have that the certified clinical aromatherapist would need to know in order to find the best match to help you, to help your healing and to support your immune system, to alleviate pain. It's also important to know what are people's dislikes and likes as far as scents are concerned because some people have aversions to certain scents and wouldn't want anything to do with them even though they may be therapeutic. There are several ways that you can use the essential oils. The methods of application that are preferred is direct inhalation which would be like a personal inhaler that somebody makes or just directly onto a tissue that you breathe directly into your nose, your mouth for respiratory conditions. Topically, using it in a carrier oil or in a cream, for example, to an area maybe you have an aching muscle and you want to put some pain relieving essential oil into a carrier oil and rub it into the muscle. You can use it like that. I also use diffusers just for your general, in your space, that you would want to be diffusing a specific oil maybe before bedtime for sleep or just to keep your house kind of smelling fresh and light and uplifting spirits. It's nice to have something. I think if it's something you're interested in looking into for yourself that it's advisable to get assistance or direction from a certified aromatherapist who can get the information needed to prevent any kind of untoward effects that might happen if you maybe used the wrong oil with the medication that you take. It's important to know what you're doing as far as safety. I really focus on safety. The other thing that's important to know is that some people go to the home goods store and they purchase a nice candle that smells or they purchase a spray or a plug-in and they may smell like lavender or gardenia, but they're made of chemicals and they have no therapeutic value so they are of no value to you if that's something you think is aromatherapy. Don't be confused by that.